The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28


BOOKED for Blanchard Opera-house in
January, 1888: Parsole's "Grass Widow F"
Company, January IA; Mariana Opera Com
pany, January IS and 49, in La File du
Regiment" and The Rose of Castillo"
b. b. BAILEY of Chicago, f. w. Tuttle of
Vergennes and George Dewey of Portland,
Maine, are among those who made the
Christmas holidays the occasion for visiting
their relatives and friends in Montpelier.
BERT" WATERMAN of Burlington,
leader of the Howard Opera-house orches-
ira and formerly with the Montpelier cor
net band in a similar capacity, is to give
series of dancing lessons at Union House
Hall the present winter.
THE coasting club elected the old board of
officers at the meeting last week and voted
to start the sport on Monday evening of this
week. The snow was too soft to make it
very exciting and cold weather is anxiously
awaited by all interested.
THE announcement made for Christmas
day concerning the delivery and collections
of mail and the hours of opening and clos
ing at the post-ofiice will hold good for Mon
day next-New Years day. The people
should govern themselves accordingly
SATURDAY morning was the coolest of the
season thus far. Here are some of the
figures (below zero) reported on that morn
ing: At Montpelier, 15' at North Mont
pelier, IL; at Waitsfeld, 157; at Calais, 12o;
at Barre, 1872 at Waterbury, 50; at Hard
wick, 16o.
DIR. ALFRED CLARK has purchased an
" electric dental VIBRATOR" an apparatus for
extracting teeth without pain and adjust
able to every degree of nervous tempera-
ment. This is another evidence of the doc
tors enterprise and desire to keep up with
the times.
WE, the undersigned, dry-goods mer-
chants and milliners of Montpelier, do
hereby agree to close our places of business
at six o'clock every evening, except Satur-
days, from January I'd to April 1st, 1888:
ID. W. Temple, Howe & Wheatley, l.. p.
Gleason q Co., George f. Taplin, II. 5.
Loomis, ii. G. Webster, c. A. Best, G. w.
Meinecke, Mrs. p. A. Standish.
THE Marvin slide was opened Saturday
afternoon, but was not in trst-class condi-
tion and is closed to await the arrival of
iced. With slight alterations in the trough
of the slide it will be ready for business.
Wouldn't it be well to announce the hours
of opening and closing by flag and cOlored
light at some central point in the village?
A LARGE company of ofdistinguished Masons
were in town to attend the banquet ex-
tended by Mt. Sinai Temple at the Pavilion
last evening Many of them were accom-
panied by ladies and the gathering was
brilliant one. The Montpelier orchestra
furnished music for the affair, which was
followed by the annual feast of the present
month at the rooms of the Temple, % State
street, when We're elected officers for the
year ensuing.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelier
(Vt.) post-ofiice December 26, 1887
Mrs. Ca,h herine Donahue Geo. W Barnard (2),
Elsie Elton, W T. Field,
Miss Edith Marway, Tom Keeney,
Mrs, Katie Reed, Jas. Mcdonald,
Miss Edith Wiley, o. T. Paine.
f. L. Andrews Ii. NJ. Wheeler.
j. S. Batchelder,
Parties applying for any of the above must
say " advertised - and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
SUNDAY was the twenty fifth anniversary
of the marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Bart
Cross, and they celebrated the occasion by
inviting small company of neighbors and
relatives to dine with them on that day
Monday evening the anniversary had more
| formal observance by the assembling, in re-
| spOnse to invitations, of some thirty friends
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Cross. The
latter were made the recipients of a beauti-
| full etching, the joint gift of several of the
guests, of some valuable individual presents
] a M Of N nI I
| good wishes.
WMMoT l.. WARREN, for a score of years
on the staff of the Springfield Republican, but
! latterly the leading editorial writer, died Fri
day evening at Attleboro, Mass, at the house
of his father-in-law. He had been in failing
health for three months. He was born in
Bethel, VT. in July, 1917, graduated at
Tufts College in 1868 and went directly to
the Republican. He married Josephine,
| daughter of Homer C.. Hopkins of this
place in December, 1870 She died in June,
! 1880, leaving two children, and he married
Mary Lee Vose in 1885. He was a trustee
of Tufts College at the time of his death.
MIR. a. f. BALL of Rutland who came to
Montpelier in November to introduce his
checker-board system of advertising, eX-
pected to stay couple of months at least
] before competing MS WOrK, Dut lie nau SuCn
| good success that he was able to deliver the
! boards last week. The work is well done.
! The distribution was made to nearly every
house in East Montpelier, North Mont
pelier, Plainfeld, Barre, South Barre,
Gouldsville, Northfeld MiddleseX, Water
/ bury, and ON the Berlin road TO North
field. The delivery in these places was
made by Charles Currier G.. ii, Corlss
and Ira p. Hall of Barre, Dexter IL. Green
of Montpelier and Mr.. Ball, While this
kind of advertising is inferior to newspaper
advertising, il has good deal of merit.
"BEAcoN LIGHTS drew pretty good
audience at Blanchard Opera-house Satur-
day evening, notwithstanding the numer-
ous other attractions of Christmas eve.
That the presentation of the exciting melo-
! drama was one of rare excellence all who
were present will testify. The company was
! one of the few which have visited Mont
peler without " stick upon the cast of
| characters. George Learock as Charles
Hadley :" was all that an audience could eX-
pect or desire, and, disguised as " Peanuts" "
the Italian, he gave the finest bit of impeT-
| sonation seen here for many day, Harold
Forsborg as "Colonel Clay Calhoun " and
| Miss Oracle Emmett as Carrie Calhoun "
were hardly less effective in their respective
parts. The rest of the support was most
satisfactory.
If you want to see really pretty sight, or
series of them, go to Blanchard Opera
house tomorrow or Friday evening and